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Articles filed under C#, collected from the Mesta Automation archive.
While it’s fairly common, when working in automation field, to make software that runs on resistive touch-screens, I admit that it’s not a trivial task to make a good user experience, especially with a…
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In a recent comment i came across Snap7, a new Siemens S7 open source library to communicate with Siemens Plc S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200 and S7-1500. It supports many languages (C++, C# and more) and…
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If you need charts in your application, OxyPlot is probably what you are searching for. You can find the source code on CodePlex and there is an extensive explanation on how to get started…
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With this article I want to show how to create a webservice in C# to communicate with an OPC-XML-DA server, like the one of SIMOTION D plc. OPC-XML-DA is a communication protocol based on…
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UPDATE 08/03/2017: I see that this article is quite popular, however it takes a simple approach to get you started, by using timers and other shortcomings. If you want to build your HMI with…
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Wpf is an advanced technology to build responsive user interfaces, but for many tasks (MessageBox, Folder Browser, Progress Dialog) you still have to use the old Windows Forms dialogs. Windows 7 replaced this old…
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AdvancedHmi is a free and “almost open-source” HMI framework written in VB.Net that offer some drivers for PLCs, and also offer free SCADA objects for winforms users. I say “almost open-source” because the code…
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In this post you will find how to use nModbus with C# and how to create a simulation enviroment to test your program with Modbus. Other useful resources that you can find in this…
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I recently started to use GIT as source code management system, and because i’m not made for commands written in console-like windows, i was looking for a guide on how to install and use…
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I made a video where i explain how to connect and read tags from and Opc server using OpcNetApi.dll library with C#. This post follows a serie of old article that you can read…
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